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DEGENERATIVE RETINOSCHISIS

Originally posted on @retina.rocks 03/11/2020

This patient with degenerative retinoschisis has extensive refractile dots, thought to be Muller cell footplates, which are well-visualized in both the Optos pseudocolor and green channel images.

This diabetic patient also has subretinal drusenoid deposits that are best seen with the green channel.

Learning Points:
Degenerative retinoschisis is virtually never prophylactically treated (see Byer 1986;93;1127-1137).

Patients can rarely develop a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment when liquid vitreous accesses the subretinal space thru both an inner and outer layer hole.